... producing equality under the law. Reforms have not eliminated racial and ethnic disparities in sentencing, and some researchers question whether they have reduced disparities at all (Tonry, 1995). While it seems that the most overt forms of racial and ethnic discrimination have been reduced-for example, instances when minority and white defendants with similar criminal histories receive vastly different sentences for the ... -which, in turn, affect sentencing outcomes it is possible that class-linked stereotypes are also operative (e.g., stereotypes of the unemployed as lazy and irrespon...

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